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  • You, mi napita, you'll be our little coquette.   (source)
    coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
  • She is coquettishly fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan,   (source)
    coquettishly = in a manner that playfully and casually arouses sexual interest of men
  • I've watched women flirt with men all my life, and I've become goddam good at playing the coquette.   (source)
    coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
  • By the time he was done, all that was left of the Weasel's bushy eyebrows was a coquettish line.†   (source)
  • Annie said, and added with lumbering coquettishness: 'I see you, Paul …. those blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Small fish took coquettish liberties with him.†   (source)
  • The planetologist's odd question seemed to have gone unnoticed by the others, and now Kynes was bending over one of the consort women, listening to a low-voiced coquetry.†   (source)
  • I'd been flicking through a row of cassette cases, my mind on other things, when suddenly there it was, under my fingers, looking just the way it had all those years ago: Judy, her cigarette, the coquettish look for the barman, the blurred palms in the background.†   (source)
  • She put it on and peered up at him coquettishly.†   (source)
  • She gave him that look, coquettish, wide-eyed, and amused, which he had known so long.†   (source)
  • She pauses to look over her shoulder and winks, running the straps coquettishly down her arms.†   (source)
  • Felicity pushes open the door and leans provocatively against the frame, playing the coquette.†   (source)
  • A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man's chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly.†   (source)
  • The bird tilts its head like a coquettish woman to regard man and beast.†   (source)
  • We bobbed our hair and wore cloche hats at coquettish angles and tried to sound like Gloria Swanson.†   (source)
  • Smiled dazzlingly and coquettishly at the salmon-colored face of the conductor.†   (source)
  • "Adami, Fabio," Fabio volunteered, almost coquettishly, "and this is Guariglia."†   (source)
  • "Give me your headdress," she ordered, but the woman only shook her head coquettishly.†   (source)
  • Oedipa rested her shades on her nose and batted her eyelashes, figuring to coquette her way off this conversational hook: "Would I make a good sensitive, do you think?"†   (source)
  • With fluttering fingertips her hand rose automatically, though with a final coquettish flourish, to touch the kerchief at the crown of her head.†   (source)
  • He turns his head coquettishly to and fro, minces like a mannequin.†   (source)
  • She was very pretty and she made coquettish little jokes.†   (source)
  • The men came in out of the cold in high clumsy snow boots, and every one of them, without exception, did his best to look like a country bumpkin; but their wives, on the contrary, their faces glowing from the frost, coats unbuttoned, shawls pushed back and hair spangled with rime, looked like hardened coquettes, cunning itself.†   (source)
  • Coquettishly.†   (source)
  • It is her coquettishness, you see.†   (source)
  • She laughed, twisting her shoulder in a horrible parody of coquetry.†   (source)
  • I've learned two new words: "brothel" and "coquette."   (source)
    coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
  • She is an aging coquette too slow to change her tactics.
  • Sometimes she works as an actress, but she is always a coquette.
  • I congratulate you Mr. Vernon on being about to receive into your family, the most accomplished coquette in England.   (source)
  • One of them held them up and waved the fingers coquettishly at the others.†   (source)
  • "How do you think about me, Will?" she asked coyly, a glint of renewed coquetry in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Someone like that good-looking Leslie Lapidus, only less of the coquette, more complaisante—†   (source)
  • She was a bit of a rogue and a coquette, God bless her, behind all her shyness and blushes.†   (source)
  • Self-conscious, coquettish, she averted her eyes.†   (source)
  • She smiles at Tyrone with a strange, incongruous coquetry.†   (source)
  • She looked at him almost coquettishly.†   (source)
  • Pippa grins coquettishly at the others.†   (source)
  • Here she paused and smiled at him, coquettishly raising those stony breasts as she pulled back her hair with her hands.†   (source)
  • The men had their lodges, their clubs, their whorehouses; the women nothing but the Altar Guild and the mincing coquetry of the minister until Dessie came along.†   (source)
  • Her voice lost its coquetry.†   (source)
  • Most notably there had been the occasion when I was about sixteen, at a school dance, when one of those artful little coquettes I have mentioned—of which Leslie was such a cherished antithesis—took me over all possible fraudulent jumps: breathing on my neck, tickling my sweaty palm with her fingertip, and insinuating her satin groin against my own with such resolute albeit counterfeit wantonness that only an almost saintly will power, after hours of this, forced me to break apart from…†   (source)
  • Scarlett O'Hara had a pretty, coquettish, highspirited face.†   (source)
  • Under the clumsy coquetry, the undignified clothes, there was the human cry for help.†   (source)
  • The French or the Belgian girl, coquettish, charming-I think there is no one to touch her.†   (source)
  • He put his head on one side, his smile became almost coquettish.†   (source)
  • There was coquetry in her glance and voice.†   (source)
  • He gave her a level look as though estimating how much coquetry was behind the question.†   (source)
  • But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.†   (source)
  • She became coquettishly feminine.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bogle who was many times a grandmother, but had a blushing air of coquetry about her that cloaked her sunken cheeks.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she looked at Wang Lung, fully and without coquetry as a child does, and he watched her and was proud of what he had done.†   (source)
  • Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches.†   (source)
  • Melly and I have often said how loyal you were to his memory when everyone else said you were just a heartless coquette.†   (source)
  • If simpering, coquetry or empty-headedness would attract him, she would gladly play the flirt and be more empty-headed than even Cathleen Calvert.†   (source)
  • Almost, I was persuaded by your coquettish airs that you cared something about me and were sorry for me.†   (source)
  • She drew a deep breath and met his eyes squarely, all coquetry and airs gone as her spirit rushed out to grapple that which she feared most.†   (source)
  • Not improbably a little of it was coquetry, as natural as a laugh to any pretty woman.†   (source)
  • "Why?" she murmured, with an accent which took all tinge of coquetry from the question.†   (source)
  • The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on.†   (source)
  • She herself was almost devoid of coquetry.†   (source)
  • I fear me she is coquettish, and over nice and fastidious!†   (source)
  • How silly, false, and vain had been her coquetry, her indifference!†   (source)
  • You seem almost like a coquette, upon my life you do—a coquette of the first urban water!†   (source)
  • "Same old coquette—same old eternal feminine," he said, half sadly.†   (source)
  • If another woman makes eyes at me, she'll refuse to know a coquette.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the natural coquetry of her nature would not permit her to relinquish him.†   (source)
  • The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him.†   (source)
  • He saw coquettish glances cast by magnificent girls.†   (source)
  • "Nothing," replied the girl, her head cocked coquettishly on one side.†   (source)
  • There should be a little filigree about a woman—something of the coquette.†   (source)
  • This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an unpleasant impression on Dolly.†   (source)
  • "What do you think, Mr. St. Clare?" she said, coquettishly tossing her head at Adolph.†   (source)
  • That's what will teach you to wear gilded girdles! ten sous parisis! you coquettes!†   (source)
  • He felt that, influenced by her ambitions and coquettish disposition, Teresa might escape him.†   (source)
  • 'I never had such luck, really,' exclaimed coquettish Miss Price, after another hand or two.†   (source)
  • But, to tell you the truth, she is also a franche coquette.†   (source)
  • Bathsheba, sweet, lost coquette, pardon me!†   (source)
  • Could that girl have been playing off any of her coquettish tricks?†   (source)
  • She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance.†   (source)
  • Do you think Miss Ingram will not suffer from your dishonest coquetry?†   (source)
  • Coquette as you think me, I have never walked about in public with a gentleman before.†   (source)
  • "I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source," said Mr. Bulstrode.†   (source)
  • It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape and unequal in size.†   (source)
  • As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with all frankness.†   (source)
  • This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.†   (source)
  • His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters.†   (source)
  • She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry.†   (source)
  • ] which contains us, you refuse to believe… The Step-Daughter [advances towards MANAGER, smiling and coquettish].†   (source)
  • And when she came to the door of the bathing place, and when it opened to receive her, she would look back at me with a little coquettish smile, so that her cheek appeared to be caressing her shoulder.†   (source)
  • The smiles and flushes and glances, all that had been coquettish about her, had lent her a certain attractiveness, almost beauty and youth.†   (source)
  • And she coquettishly enhanced the charm of the smile which the idea had brought to her lips, by giving to her blue eyes, which were fixed on the General, a gentle, dreamy expression.†   (source)
  • "La, Sir Percy, your chivalry misguides you," said Marguerite, coquettishly, "you forget that you yourself have imported one bundle of goods from France."†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as she was human, she could not help thinking and being pleased and enjoying a little the discomfiture of the two coquettes.†   (source)
  • She was attempting to show him a new step in a genial and yet coquettish way, and with an amused, sensuous look.†   (source)
  • Symptoms of a lumbering coquetry became visible in her, and Archer found the strength to break in: "But Madame Olenska——has she gone to Newport too?"†   (source)
  • But no law—not public opinion even—punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable.†   (source)
  • The more she saw of Lassiter the more she respected him, and the greater her respect the harder it became to lend herself to mere coquetry.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.†   (source)
  • Were the gentlemen repulsed by it, too? she asked coquettishly; and her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face.†   (source)
  • That was talk, but Nicole had a better hold on him now and she held it; she turned coquette and walked away, leaving him as suspended as in the funicular of the afternoon.†   (source)
  • "I didn't see you for a long time," she said, coquettishly, repulsing one of his exuberant approaches.†   (source)
  • Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.†   (source)
  • Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim.†   (source)
  • "Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?†   (source)
  • Her low almost harsh voice rose a few notes, simulating a plaintive coquetry: "Say: 'Ickle durl, oo is de pwettiest sing.†   (source)
  • She had no coquetry; she spoke as she would have spoken of the stones at her feet; she did not know that she was beautiful.†   (source)
  • [The STEP-DAUGHTER coquettishly and with a touch of malice makes a sign of disagreement two or three times with her finger.†   (source)
  • Carley had seen several million coquettes, she believed; and assuredly Flo Hutter belonged to the species.†   (source)
  • He knew that there was no calculated coquetry in her words; she was fighting her fate as he had fought his, and clinging desperately to her resolve that they should not break faith with the people who trusted them.†   (source)
  • I know perfectly well that all this about her being a liar and a bully and a coquette and so forth is a trumped-up moral indictment which might be brought against anybody.†   (source)
  • She reasoned: If Stewart were the kind of man her feminine skepticism wanted to make him, he would not have been so blind to the coquettish advances of Helen and Dorothy.†   (source)
  • As he surveyed the white square set in an exotic coquetry of architecture, the studied tropicality of the gardens, the groups loitering in the foreground against mauve mountains which suggested a sublime stage-setting forgotten in a hurried shifting of scenes——as he took in the whole outspread effect of light and leisure, he felt a movement of revulsion from the last few months of his life.†   (source)
  • "Why, yes, of course, if you want me to," she replied, coquettishly, seeking to intrigue him into further romanticisms in regard to her.†   (source)
  • And since she has plunged Tavy head over ears in love with her without any intention of marrying him, she is a coquette, according to the standard definition of a coquette as a woman who rouses passions she has no intention of gratifying.†   (source)
  • So she did not inquire of herself why Helen's coquetry and Dorothy's languishing allurement annoyed her, or why Edith's eloquent smile and words had pleased her.†   (source)
  • …scattered abroad, would make me feel that I was approaching the incomparable presence of a vegetable personality, strong and tender; then, as I drew near, the sight of their topmost branches, their lightly tossing foliage, in its easy grace, its coquettish outline, its delicate fabric, over which hundreds of flowers were laid, like winged and throbbing colonies of precious insects; and finally their name itself, feminine, indolent and seductive, made my heart beat, but with a social…†   (source)
  • And then in her coquettish and artful way she smiled up in his eyes, a bland, deceptive and yet seemingly promising smile, which caused his heart to beat faster and his throat to tighten.†   (source)
  • She now turned and looked upon him in full, the instincts of self-protection and coquetry mingling confusedly in her brain.†   (source)
  • …heavy arches, long stopped and blinded with coarse blocks of ashlar, except where, near the porch, a deep groove was furrowed into one wall by the tower-stair; and even there the barbarity was veiled by the graceful gothic arcade which pressed coquettishly upon it, like a row of grown-up sisters who, to hide him from the eyes of strangers, arrange themselves smilingly in front of a countrified, unmannerly and ill-dressed younger brother; rearing into the sky above the Square a tower…†   (source)
  • If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she "took up" with him at all, to call her by her first name.†   (source)
  • Forgive me for sometimes calling you Alyosha; an old woman like me may take liberties," she smiled coquettishly; "but that will do later, too.†   (source)
  • To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.†   (source)
  • …sleeves of this dignitary were lined and turned up with rich furs, his mantle secured at the throat with a golden clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of the present day, who, while she retains the garb and costume of her sect continues to give to its simplicity, by the choice of materials and the mode of disposing them, a certain air of coquettish attraction, savouring but too much of the vanities of the world.†   (source)
  • I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.†   (source)
  • The words might have been those of a coquette, but the full, bright glance Maggie turned on Philip was not that of a coquette.†   (source)
  • But Providence is nothing if not coquettish; and no sooner had Eustacia formed this resolve than the opportunity came which, while sought, had been entirely withholden.†   (source)
  • When I was happy, it was only necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that I was not a coquettish and untidy woman.†   (source)
  • Hetty dropped the prettiest little curtsy, and stole a half-shy, half-coquettish glance at him as she said, "Yes, thank you, sir."†   (source)
  • She had the reputation of being a frivolous coquette, abandoned herself eagerly to every sort of pleasure, danced to exhaustion, laughed and jested with young men, whom she received in the dim light of her drawing-room before dinner; while at night she wept and prayed, found no peace in anything, and often paced her room till morning, wringing her hands in anguish, or sat, pale and chill, over a psalter.†   (source)
  • The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilettes, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.†   (source)
  • Mother Catherine has a most coquettish little toilet-table, with something that looked uncommonly like a bottle of eau-de-Cologne.†   (source)
  • If they tell you I'm a coquette, which some may, because of the incidents of my life, don't believe it, for I am not."†   (source)
  • I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to…†   (source)
  • She thought of long reception halls hung with ancient silk, of the dainty cabinets containing priceless curiosities and of the little coquettish perfumed reception rooms made for chatting at five o'clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire.†   (source)
  • The attendant gondola, having skimmed forward again, with some swift trace of an eye in the window, Fanny laughed coquettishly and said, 'Did you ever see such a fool, my love?'†   (source)
  • It made her look, when she sported it, like a woman of thirty; but oddly enough, in spite of her taste for fine clothes, she had not a grain of coquetry, and her anxiety when she put them on was as to whether they, and not she, would look well.†   (source)
  • "Andre," said his wife, addressing her husband in the same coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, "the vicomte has been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!"†   (source)
  • The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrasted with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there—with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred—that the inversion of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.†   (source)
  • "Was it with that intention you followed me?" asked the young woman, with a coquettish smile, whose somewhat bantering character resumed its influence, and with whom all fear had disappeared from the moment in which she recognized a friend in one she had taken for an enemy.†   (source)
  • At once connecting these signs with the letter Boldwood had shown him, Gabriel suspected her of some coquettish procedure begun by that means, and carried on since, he knew not how.†   (source)
  • She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms.†   (source)
  • With her pretty hair tucked into a little cap, arms bared to the elbow, and a checked apron which had a coquettish look in spite of the bib, the young housewife fell to work, feeling no doubts about her success, for hadn't she seen Hannah do it hundreds of times?†   (source)
  • It at once created a sort of confidence between them, and the discourse was continued on the part of the hunter, without the lively consciousness of the character of this coquette of the wilderness, with which it had certainly commenced.†   (source)
  • But they were young: their burning passions proved them so. Inflamed to madness by the coquetry of the girl-widow, who neither granted nor quite withheld her favors, the three rivals began to interchange threatening glances.†   (source)
  • Emma carved, put bits on his plate with all sorts of coquettish ways, and she laughed with a sonorous and libertine laugh when the froth of the champagne ran over from the glass to the rings on her fingers.†   (source)
  • The conversation lasted a long time, during which he took more than one pinch of snuff, saying to himself, "No, you haven't caught me yet, coquettes that you are!†   (source)
  • "No, no, it is not in the militia," cried Elizabeth, showing the packet in her hand, and then drawing it back with a coquettish air; "it is an office of both honor and emolument."†   (source)
  • 'Come, don't call me a dear girl,' said Miss Price—smiling a little though, for she was pretty, and a coquette too in her small way, and Nicholas was good-looking, and she supposed him the property of somebody else, which were all reasons why she should be gratified to think she had made an impression on him,—'or Fanny will be saying it's my fault.†   (source)
  • "At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand," replied Mercedes; "you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry.†   (source)
  • If I do——Well," said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, "I'll use it!"†   (source)
  • The chamber was evidently furnished for the reception of a woman; and the most finished coquette could not have formed a wish, but on casting her eyes about the apartment, she would have found that wish accomplished.†   (source)
  • Judith walked slowly and pensively away, nor was there any of her ordinary calculating coquetry in the light tremulous sigh that, unconsciously to herself, arose to her lips.†   (source)
  • "I am afraid that you must have been dreadfully bored," he said, promptly catching the ball of coquetry she had flung him.†   (source)
  • Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract.†   (source)
  • We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smiles which they wear so easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm—I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue.†   (source)
  • So, through the rest of the walk, he claimed Adam's conversation for himself, and Hetty laid her small plots and imagined her little scenes of cunning blandishment, as she walked along by the hedgerows on honest Adam's arm, quite as well as if she had been an elegantly clad coquette alone in her boudoir.†   (source)
  • The power of her face all lost, the charm of her emotions all disguised, the fascinations of her coquetry denied existence, nothing but a voice left to her; she had a sense of the doom of Echo.†   (source)
  • , with chiccory leaves and vermicelli, and all the warts, and all the fungi, which disfigure that decrepit, toothless, and coquettish old architecture.†   (source)
  • And Maggie was so entirely without those pretty airs of coquetry which have the traditional reputation of driving gentlemen to despair that she won some feminine pity for being so ineffective in spite of her beauty.†   (source)
  • One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying, "Now Professor," in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.†   (source)
  • Accustomed, however, to the waywardness and coquetry of the beauty, this discovery gave him little concern, and he ate with an appetite that was in no degree disturbed by any moral causes.†   (source)
  • She pulled out of her box, about ten minutes ago, a little pink silk frock; rapture lit her face as she unfolded it; coquetry runs in her blood, blends with her brains, and seasons the marrow of her bones.†   (source)
  • Her attitude, though perfectly natural for an Eastern woman would, in a European, have been deemed too full of coquettish straining after effect.†   (source)
  • Annie Moffat's foolish lessons in coquetry came into her mind, and the love of power, which sleeps in the bosoms of the best of little women, woke up all of a sudden and took possession of her.†   (source)
  • Not that her enjoyment of music was of the kind that indicates a great specific talent; it was rather that her sensibility to the supreme excitement of music was only one form of that passionate sensibility which belonged to her whole nature, and made her faults and virtues all merge in each other; made her affections sometimes an impatient demand, but also prevented her vanity from taking the form of mere feminine coquetry and device, and gave it the poetry of ambition.†   (source)
  • The young man felt her press his hand, and comprehended that this was a sentiment, not of coquetry, but of gratitude because of his departure.†   (source)
  • He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.†   (source)
  • Her magnificent blond hair was plaited in a ravishing manner, she was dressed entirely in that sky blue which becomes fair people so well, a bit of coquetry which she had learned from Colombe, and her eyes were swimming in that languor of love which becomes them still better.†   (source)
  • If you were not such a charming simpleton, what a temptation this would be to play the wicked coquette, and let you suppose that somebody besides you has made love to me.†   (source)
  • The thought of Dinah's pale grave face and mild grey eyes, which the sight of the gown and cap brought with it, made it a laughable surprise enough to see them replaced by Hetty's round rosy cheeks and coquettish dark eyes.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle Bourienne was the same coquettish, self-satisfied girl, enjoying every moment of her existence and full of joyous hopes for the future.†   (source)
  • He had understood her better than he confessed; this singular scene was a practical commentary upon her father's statement that she was a frank coquette.†   (source)
  • "What a darling our Papa is!" she cried, kissing him, and she again looked at Pierre with the unconscious coquetry that had returned to her with her better spirits.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brooke's plain dressing was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared.†   (source)
  • Doubtless one of the charming females Albert had detected beneath their coquettish disguise was touched by his gallantry; for, as the carriage of the two friends passed her, she threw a bunch of violets.†   (source)
  • But if Maggie had been the queen of coquettes she could hardly have invented a means of giving greater piquancy to her beauty in Stephen's eyes; I am not sure that the quiet admission of plain sewing and poverty would have done alone, but assisted by the beauty, they made Maggie more unlike other women even than she had seemed at first.†   (source)
  • …to him about the limited amount of milk that was to be spared for butter and cheese so long as the calves were not all weaned, and a large quantity but inferior quality of milk yielded by the shorthorn, which had been bought on experiment, together with other matters which must be interesting to a young gentleman who would one day be a landlord, Hetty tossed and patted her pound of butter with quite a self-possessed, coquettish air, slyly conscious that no turn of her head was lost.†   (source)
  • If she had even said 'I hate you' in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly….†   (source)
  • "I thought I should have killed myself with laughing, Deerslayer," the beauty abruptly but coquettishly commenced, "when I saw that Indian dive into the river!†   (source)
  • "No, my Lord," replied the impassive young man; "your Lordship may be assured that it requires more than the tricks and coquetry of a woman to corrupt me."†   (source)
  • He says you are a coquette.†   (source)
  • Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.†   (source)
  • This picturesque attire set him off to great advantage; and when he had bound the scarf around his waist, and when his hat, placed coquettishly on one side, let fall on his shoulder a stream of ribbons, Franz was forced to confess that costume has much to do with the physical superiority we accord to certain nations.†   (source)
  • Helene was so lovely that not only did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty.†   (source)
  • In most, of their previous interviews she had met his advances with evasion or sarcasm, but these Hurry had mistaken for female coquetry, and had supposed might easily be converted into consent.†   (source)
  • Of course, I know that, as a rule, sensible men fall in love with the most sensible women of their acquaintance, see through all the pretty deceits of coquettish beauty, never imagine themselves loved when they are not loved, cease loving on all proper occasions, and marry the woman most fitted for them in every respect—indeed, so as to compel the approbation of all the maiden ladies in their neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • The small marquise sometimes looked at him with an intensity too marked not to be innocent, for coquetry is more finely shaded.†   (source)
  • But an interruption was put to the gallantry of Hurry, the coquetry of his intros, the thoughts of Deerslayer, and the gentle feelings of Hetty, by the sudden appearance of the canoe of the ark's owner, in the narrow opening among the bushes that served as a sort of moat to his position.†   (source)
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